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mandragoraDamn you! *glares at certain people on her friends-page* Because of you I've spent way too much time reading various RPS stories recently. And very good they are too.
Because those damned RPSers have recced some of the bloody creme de la creme, haven't they? So of course they're good.
*glares*
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julad with your damnable links to various well-written stories. And then uschickens compounded the offence by emailing me with a copy of a story that is no longer available on the net, not to mention another bleeding link.
Not only have I found myself searching out Nsync (and yes, I do know that I'm spelling it wrong) websites to look at pictures of the band so I can work out which is which but I also found myself idly musing what their music sounds like. Oh, I know I'll have heard their records, but I've never actually paid attention to them so don't consciously know what they sound like. I thought to myself for one moment, wonder if I should go and search out the music, too. And then I caught myself, because, dude (to use a word commonly found in Nsync stories *g*), I mean boybands. Really not my thing.
However, I think I can understand better why so many people fell so hard and so fast for the fandom. But I'm still bewildered at the lack of discretion shown in publishing the stories. Maybe it's the lawyer in me, but if I wrote RPS I'd be password protecting any website containing RPS stories like mad.
On the plus side, when I was in Sainsbury's earlier today looking to see if there was any Nsync CDs on sale so I could see if I recognised any of the song titles (for the record there were none although there were lots of other boyband CDs on offer. I conjecture that this means that Nsync aren't as big in the UK as in the US) I came across a copy of The Undertones Greatest Hits. And so I pounced. Because. The Undertones, best band of the 1980s that never made it big. Ah, the memories.
I occasionally get dragged along to 80's music club type affairs and watch the DJ spinning record after record with a bored look on their faces. Until I go up and ask them if they've got any Undertones. I have never yet failed to see their face light up and moments later Teenage Kicks (it always seems to be Teenage Kicks) is blasting out. And if the dance floor wasn't packed before, it is then. Undertones, never fails.
Must go and play the CD.
Because those damned RPSers have recced some of the bloody creme de la creme, haven't they? So of course they're good.
*glares*
Yes, I blame you
julad with your damnable links to various well-written stories. And then uschickens compounded the offence by emailing me with a copy of a story that is no longer available on the net, not to mention another bleeding link.Not only have I found myself searching out Nsync (and yes, I do know that I'm spelling it wrong) websites to look at pictures of the band so I can work out which is which but I also found myself idly musing what their music sounds like. Oh, I know I'll have heard their records, but I've never actually paid attention to them so don't consciously know what they sound like. I thought to myself for one moment, wonder if I should go and search out the music, too. And then I caught myself, because, dude (to use a word commonly found in Nsync stories *g*), I mean boybands. Really not my thing.
However, I think I can understand better why so many people fell so hard and so fast for the fandom. But I'm still bewildered at the lack of discretion shown in publishing the stories. Maybe it's the lawyer in me, but if I wrote RPS I'd be password protecting any website containing RPS stories like mad.
On the plus side, when I was in Sainsbury's earlier today looking to see if there was any Nsync CDs on sale so I could see if I recognised any of the song titles (for the record there were none although there were lots of other boyband CDs on offer. I conjecture that this means that Nsync aren't as big in the UK as in the US) I came across a copy of The Undertones Greatest Hits. And so I pounced. Because. The Undertones, best band of the 1980s that never made it big. Ah, the memories.
I occasionally get dragged along to 80's music club type affairs and watch the DJ spinning record after record with a bored look on their faces. Until I go up and ask them if they've got any Undertones. I have never yet failed to see their face light up and moments later Teenage Kicks (it always seems to be Teenage Kicks) is blasting out. And if the dance floor wasn't packed before, it is then. Undertones, never fails.
Must go and play the CD.
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Date: 20 September 2003 19:23 (UTC)no subject
Date: 21 September 2003 13:29 (UTC)Nah, not really. I am glad that I can understand the attraction much more than I used to, but I've no intention of getting sucked into any RPS fandom. I've still got too many qualms about some of the stuff that's out there. Not the stories I've read, which as I wrote in response to Julad were often charming, but the more 'extreme' stuff. The idea of raping and torturing a real person, even in just a story, fills me with unease.